Brucefield Field Concert

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I posted a call for memories to Facebook on April 11, 2021. I am looking for help with some old photos scanned during March of 2021 (during the COVID-19 lockdown). Sorting and digitizing old photos has been a pandemic project for me.
I'm looking for your memories .... there was a field concert near Brucefield hosted by Richard Stevens in the late summer of 1981. Kate and I were married just a year then and had rented a car so we could go and stay for the day — I wanted her to see the Demics who had moved to Toronto and weren't around London as much. In spite of a very good concert lineup there weren't a lot there to see the show. The concert was out in a farmer's field, the stage was a flat bed trailer. I'm told there was even a pig-roast but I have no recollection of that.


During the day the Forgotten Rebels played (that would have been the first time we'd seen them), another band that I can't recall (it might have been the System from Toronto) and later in the afternoon it rained quite a bit. We hunkered down in our car and saw a twister coming down but it never touched the ground. The Demics played after sunset when the rain had let up and I've shared those pictures before. There has been some previous comments/posts on this event.


This photo album has some crowd pictures, the FR's and another band I can't recall. If you were there and can share some memories that would be great. I've added my pictures of the Demics from the same event which have been shared already.


David Clark recalls: "Best moment of the day was Mickey DeSadist [of the Forgotten Rebels] saying something about the punk rock revolution being powered by a Honda generator."


Dave O'Halloran recalls: "That was August or Sept 1981 somewhere near Brucefield. Posted some pictures from this gig a little while ago and the farmer's name that owned the field, Richard Stevens came up. Apparently there was a pig roast there as well, but can't recall. The System from Toronto played, along with Zellots, Forgotten Rebels, Demics and probably more...."
Ps. I'd really like to identify the second band/bands, if you can help, let me know. Apologies for the poor quality BW photos. They're what I have.


Since we're not sure when this event actually happened during the later summer of 1981 so I have arbitrarily filed it in my blog under August of that year.